LINCOLN’S VISION OF THE HIGH COST OF FREEDOM
Abraham Lincoln was a self-taught man and yet he wrote some of the greatest prose in our history. Consider the substance and the eloquence of Lincoln as he holds up the vision of sacrifice in his hand-written letter of consolation to Mrs. Bixby of Boston on the loss of her five sons in battle. Dear Madam, I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the republic they died to save. I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave…
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